Incidents in the life of.....

Monday, February 16, 2004

It's been so long

Whoa, I haven't written in this thing in forever. Let me do a minicap on the events of the past few days:
Wednesday: Afram History was cancelled. I sat in on Afram Lit. We discussed Claude McKay. I like him. We covered "If We Must Die" and Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel." I haven't figured out which l like more. I think it is "Yet Do I Marvel." Everyone basically agreed on If We Must Die. We see the social protest, his desire to fight back, and his quest to die with dignity. In "Yet Do I Marvel" we had a few problems. Miranda said he was angry. I didn't see it, neither did Carlos. All we saw was his questions. It seemed to us like he was saying he understands Sisyphus's and Tantalus's plight. They did something to upset the gods and will suffer forever for it. Yet, all he did was wake up black and was punished and will suffer forever for it. Then on top of that, he is expected to sing. Sing can be interpreted as write poetry or go through life being happy. Miranda said he was angry. I missed it.
Thursday: I almost fell asleep in Afram Politics. In Shakespear, we did the trial. Taki is a mess. We lost. We were going to loose anyway because the jury was against us. Taki just made it worse. It was fun though. I enjoyed it. My closing arguement was good, but we lost. I knew we would. We had fun doing it. We had the Pretty Parlor. KH said it was our worst event. She was right. It was a tadbit ghetto. Other than that, they chose the wrong person to speak. The girl couldn't deliver a message to save her life. I had fun, it just wasn't our best.
Friday: I went to Afram History. Dr. W. let another student teach the class. He did an excellent job. His deliverance was graphic, but we are all grown and it made us think about things that we wouldn't have ordinarily thought about. It was good. I can see him teaching, but he needs to teach at a black school because the white people will get rid of him. He is a little too problack. He wouldn't make it teaching white students. I really don't think he would make it working for a white principal. I skipped Senior Seminar. I just didn't want to go. I went to the mall. We were in there for about 4 hours. My feet were killing me. I enjoyed shopping with Keysha and B though. B is so funny. I love her. Then we went to the party. I was nearly naked. I had fun. It was nice. I was a bit worried about the turnout at the beginning. It was too many parties. The Qs, the Alphas, the AKAs, and one of the deejays from the radio had a party. I think we did good for our first party. I think everyone enjoyed it. It was really nice.
Saturday: Saturday was just another day. I spent time with Mr. Interesting, but nothing spectacular. I finished a book. I talked to KC for about 5 hours. She really opened up. I did too. We just talked. We always just talk, but this time it was more in depth. I like her. She's pretty cool. She's been through a lot, but she's cool peeps.
Sunday: I didn't go to church. I went to breakfast at IHOP. They were super busy. I washed. I had 5 loads. It was a mess. I went to see GP probate. It was good. I thought they were a little ghetto, but they do go to JState. The steps were good. The chants were the best. You can tell they hadn't practiced because too many of them did not the steps nor the struts. If they would have had more time, it could have been better.
That about sums it up. I am about to go to the caf. Then I have to come back to the lab and work on this paper that is due at 3. It's horrible. I have no idea what I am going to write about. LJ has my book. I really need to do well though because I made a C on the first one. I am going to have to get on it. I plan on having my senior paper finished by next Monday. Mrs. Freeman is going to kill me.

Posted by Nik :: 2/16/2004 :: 0 Comments: